# OOD desktop fails with "broken\_shadow"

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/ood-desktop-fails-with-broken-shadow/3167>\
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**Created:** [December 19, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/ood-desktop-fails-with-broken-shadow/3167 "2023-12-19T17:49:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/ood-desktop-fails-with-broken-shadow/3167/5 "2024-02-01T14:35:56Z")

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Jeff,

We saw this topic [Could not connect to session bus](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/could-not-connect-to-session-bus/1950) and added  
`/usr/bin/loginctl enable-linger $SLURM_JOB_USER` into `script.sh.erb`

After that, it worked fine.

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